Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous, love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offense, and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. Love does not come to an end (1 Corinthians:13).
Many couples change when they’re in love for the better. An example of this is shown in the movie A Walk to Remember through Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan’s relationship.
This movie is about how Landon is very selfish and sinful in the beginning, how Jamie changes him for the better, and the lessons Landon has learned from his experiences. A Walk to Remember begins with Landon Carter, a popular, bad boy in high school. He drinks, swears, and almost killed a kid by playing a stupid prank on him. He and his group of friends dared another teenager to jump into a pool of water, where he instantly became injured and his body became paralyzed (Movie-Gazette 1).
Landon was caught being involved in this prank and was given community service work to do, which included tutoring children on weekends and being forced to participate in the Drama Club’s spring play. This is how he met Jamie Sullivan, who is very unpopular and the exact opposite of Landon. Jamie is very focused and serious. She is involved in many activities and had goals for her life. At first, Landon didn’t really talk to Jamie and was embarrassed to be around her. But as time went on, Landon realized he loved her confidence and goals, and ended up falling in love with her.
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They ended up getting very close and Jamie ended up sharing her goals with Landon, such as being in two places at once, getting a tattoo, witnessing a miracle, etc. Landon made each of her goals come true in this movie. Jamie finally told Landon she had leukemia and stopped responding to her treatments. This secret caused Landon to fall even more in love with Jamie and the rest of the movie was incredibly emotional and moving (Imbd 1-2).
The movie A Walk to Remember is based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks. Nicholas Sparks was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1965.
He majored in Business Finance and graduated with High Honors from Notre Dame in 1988. He married now living in North Carolina with his wife Catherine and their five children. Nicholas Sparks has mesmerized his readers with romantic novels since 1996 (Authorsontheweb 1-3).
Sparks wanted to create a story with multiple themes such as spirituality, power, beauty, and innocence of first love. He created two young characters (Landon and Jamie) that were on a very personal level defined by Sparks’ own morals and values. He wanted Landon and Jamie to be deeply in love, but without the intimacy that normally accompanies in such deep love.
Nicholas Sparks also wanted the novel to show the power of faith, and he believes that in the end, redemption was one of the more powerful elements in the novel (NicholasSparks 1-2).
This movie was directed by Adam Shankman and produced by Denise DiNovi and Hunt Lowry from Warner Brother’s Pictures. The movie came out in the year 2002 and was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina. The intended audience for A Walk to Remember is mainly teenagers and younger girls; however it’s a great movie for anyone because of the many lessons in it (Imbd 2).
The producer was trying to get the point across that people can change for the better, such as Landon has and that love is truly out there (Movies. go 1).
In the beginning of this novel, Landon Carter only cared for himself and constantly sinned. He and his friends were hell-raisers at school, they drank all the time, didn’t listen to their parents or any adults, and were considered the “bad boys” of high school. One of the biggest sins he had done was daring the new kid at school to jump in a pond. The boy ended up severely hurt right away and his body was paralyzed.
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Landon and his friends did not want to get into trouble, so they just left him there (Movie-Gazette 1).
Before Landon and Jamie became close, Jamie was also being sinned against by Landon. He thought she was a huge nerd and wasn’t worth his time. Landon thought he was better than Jamie only because he was popular and she wasn’t. He would ignore her and make it apparent that he didn’t want to be around her. Then he started being friendly towards her, but was embarrassed, so he wouldn’t acknowledge her at school. When Landon’s friends were around, he called Jamie names, even though he knew it wasn’t right. (Movie-Gazette 1).
I believe the cause of Landon’s sin is peer pressure. He was in the cool crowd and wanted to fit in. He loved being the center of attention, so in order to do that, he sometimes had to play cruel pranks on people, call people names, or talk about them behind their backs. Popularity also was a major part of why Landon sinned. Landon’s friends were “bad boys”; so he thought he had to be one too. Landon’s wrongdoing was individual sin. In the beginning of the movie, when Landon and his friends were drinking and accidently injured the new kid, his friends had a lot to do with him breaking rules, but it ultimately comes down to him.
He knows what is right and what is wrong and only he can decide for himself. Original sin is the condition of sin that marks all humans as a result of Adam’s first act of disobedience (dictionary. reference 1).
Landon’s sins could have been prevented. He had the tough attitude and only cared about himself. I do not think it is fair to blame Adam for how Landon acted. Landon did not think before he acted. He sent a boy to the hospital, he intentionally hurt people’s feelings, etc. Landon needed better moral values and a nicer personality.
He could have easily done what’s right, but popularity and being the center of attention was more important to him. The central character in this movie was Landon. Jamie remained the same person from beginning to end, while Landon started out as a shallow, sinful person, whose only goal and care in the world was to have fun. However, he was saved by Jamie. Landon changed his life for the better because of Jamie. Jamie filled Landon with a sense of determination that carried him through the rest of his life. Landon realized everything Jamie had done for him.
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Although Jamie’s secret of having leukemia was very sad, it was an enormous step for Landon in becoming a sensitive man with goals of his own. When Jamie died, Landon said “Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope, and the journey ahead. I’ll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can’t see it, but I can feel it” (Hotmoviequotes 1).
While watching this movie I wondered how a down-to-earth Christian girl could change the life of a worldly, self-centered, popularity oriented, trouble making boy, who wouldn’t ordinarily give a girl like her a second thought.
Because Landon got himself in trouble and had to join the Drama Club’s spring play, he had to spend time with Jamie. He needed her help in memorizing his lines, which turns his attention. While spending time with Jamie, he begins paying more attention to just outward appearances. Jamie Sullivan’s strong, confident faith in God, in spite of less than perfect circumstances, shines through, which makes Landon interested and captures his attention. While they become closer, Jamie begins to share her dreams with Landon which inspires him to think about deeper things than where the next party is or whom he can make fun of next.
Once he begins thinking about deeper things, he tries to make things right between people he has wronged before in his life, and also begins to think more deeply about God. In one of the scenes, Landon is in his car thinking and driving and a song comes on and it says something like “When I am confused, in You I find my peace”. Through this part of the movie, you see Landon change from angry, to peace, to tears of joy. He finally found God in his life. Landon’s friendships changed over the time that he had changed. He was a foul mouthed, shallow person in the beginning and hung out with people who were exactly like that.
Then he started seeing Jamie, a thoughtful, kind, confident, and peaceful girl. His old friends had a huge problem with Jamie because she was different and wasn’t in the popular crowd. In one of the scenes in the movie, Landon’s ex-girlfriend and his old friends post a picture of Jamie’s face on a naked body and post it all over school just to make fun of and humiliate Jamie. Jamie and the change in Landon ended up affecting some of Landon’s old friends. After watching the movie A Walk to Remember, it is evident that love and having faith can change a person for the better. Landon started out as a selfish, bad boy, who always broke the rules.
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Once he met the right girl (Jamie), who was thoughtful, spiritual, kind, and strong, he realized there are other people than just him. I think this movie is wonderful and encourage others to see it. In many movies, Christianity is often made to look weak or foolish. A Walk to Remember does not do that in any way, which is very nice. This movie teaches many lessons and had many themes such as the beauty, power, and innocence of love, changing for the better, and the importance of God in your life. This movie is a tragic, yet spiritual love story and is very interesting, touching, and captivating.
